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Part 105 – When destiny plays its card…

Zoheb Patel. Now here was a genuinely nice guy…he had come in this morning to fill in the formalities for a restraining order against an Aadil Langry with supporting statements from Naeem,Riza,Arshad and Aara.

Immy: okay let’s go for you Riza and Laeeka (and he opened the paper) Shrek and Fiona?

Nemo fell backwards laughing!!!!

Nemo: bro you’re meant to be Shrek!!

Immy: I don’t quite follow…

Riza: you’ll see …just now…Nemo pick a paper and a guy and girls name

Nemo: let’s go for Nemo and Aara?

Riza: you’re picking yourself?

Nemo: well I’ve never been paired with my best friend ever in any of these things so I’m taking my chances (and he opened his paper and jumped down) Zorrrrrro baby!! Sweetheart…my senorita…it’s you and me!!

I couldn’t help but notice Zoheb looking a little uneasy…

Aara: oh calm down will you(shushing Nemo away)

Riza: right…Zoheb your pick

Zoheb: it has to be a guys name only….so Arshad (and he opened the paper) Grease Arshoo!! Oh this is going to be supercool!

Arshad: hey…john travolta…me????

Nemo: yeah Arshoo we know…we are also in trauma over that :-p

Zainab: (throwing a chips packet on Nemo) don’t be mean!

Riza: (laughing like a mad man) that leaves us with Immy,Zoheb and Mari-the Twilight trio!! Okay Immy the thing is, we randomly chose and selected four movie couples and on date night…you’re going to have to dress the part..no acting or anything of the sort but we just have a different way of creating memories

Aara: a weird way you mean?

Riza: ya ya

Aara:(smirking) so who’s Edward and who’s Jacob?

Zoheb: I’m not going to be Edward uh uh

Aara: You can! You can wear the jacket!! It would suit the part perfectly!

Zainab: errr what jacket?

And Aara had a stunned”caught off guard” look on her face as she bit her lip and put her head down. Zoheb also had a little smirk on his face…

Immy: oh..kay…I’m guessing I’m jacob then?

And everyone burst out laughing!!!

Riza: welcome to our world bro!

And eventually everyone started leaving …one by one…

Immy: can I drop you home Maariah?

Me: no thanks I’m going with Arshad and Zainab

Aara: (whispering) you’re so rude…

Arshad: I have a lot of parcels in the back seat now so sorry Mari I can’t drop you *winking at Immy*

Me: Arshad!!

And Arshad and Zai left. Riza and Nemo were still fiddling with something in Riza’s car and I overheard Aara whispering to Zoheb..

Aara: let’s go!

And they left before anyone probably even noticed that they were gone. Zoheb opened the passenger side door for her too! There’s something happening there that’s for sure…

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As narrated by Zoheb:

Whenever I think that my hope is fading…I realise its just me and nothing else…as much as it looks otherwise sometimes…she always makes me see it differently…

Aara didn’t ask me to take her home, she told me to take her home…it’s a feeling of belonging and familiarity that made me feel warm inside.

Aara: now tell me what do you feel like eating?

Me: how many different kinds of things are you going to be cooking? By the time you’re done you will be exhausted

Aara: I don’t mind…come on tell me

Me: another time…for now I’ll just enjoy whatever you’re making for everyone else:)

Aara: as long as its not like giblets or sheeps head or ewww all those things

Me: (laughing)no no…please no..I don’t eat all of that…I know I don’t look it but I really love veggies and I would kill for some plain aalu fry and bindi…I haven’t that in ages…well not home cooked anyway

Aara: (frowning) that’s it?

Me: that’s it 🙂

Aara: really?

Me: really:)

Aara: are you for real?

Me: (pinching myself) I guess I am

Aara: ok (getting off my car)

Me: aren’t you going to say goodbye atleast?

Aara: for what?

Me: Aara!

Aara: dimples! Aren’t you coming up? Ice cream remember?

Grrrrrrr. This woman will eat me alive!! Gosh I love her!

Me:(sitting on Aara’s lounge carpet next to her, eating a bowl of Chocolate Milano) curiosity applepie…what is that around your neck…its never on your clothes always inside? Taweez?

Aara: (touching her neck)this…(A small smile playing on her face as she took it out and held it in her hand)…this is something that nobody gave to me and that which I didn’t take from anyone either…(Rubbing its surface)…a few years ago at the airport in Durban I remember colliding into someone really hard but I was so much in my own world that I hadn’t noticed the person or this …thing…that had gotten stuck onto my jersey. When I sat in the car that’s when Riza pointed it out to me….I would never have kept it had it not been for the engraving behind it…”Nasrun minallahi wa fathun kareeb-”

And she moved her fingers to reveal what lay in her hand…a small rectangular silver pendant…that was broken off on oneside

Aara: I always hoped to find its owner..how I don’t know…but at that point in time I was probably at my lifes lowest low….anyway so I got a little hole made into it and put a chain through it. Maybe one day I’ll find who it belongs to…until then its safe with me

I had no words. I seriously had no words.

I took out my wallet and pulled out a silver chain…with a piece of the rectangular silver pendant thing still on it…and I handed it to Aara

“Love Always-Nani”

And I watched her…as she joined the pieces of this little silver pendant in shock

Tears filled her eyes….as she stared at this little piece of silver that had linked us once before and joined us now again…

Aara: it was you…(Wiping her tears) it was you…(Turning to face me) do you know…on the day that I found this…I was as broken as I could have possibly been…when Riza pointed out that something was stuck on my jersey I was about to throw it away when I turned it over and read the inscription….

It gave me the strength that I needed…I took it as a sign that what I was going to do was not wrong. (Tears falling out of her eyes) whenever I felt low,whenever I felt hurt I would hold this and remind myself that I was not alone…Zoheb…this belongs to you…I’m so sorry

Me: (closing her hand over the pendant) it was never meant for me….it was always yours…my Nani’s dua was meant for you Aara..

********And I remembered the day I was leaving Durban, I had come to see my Nani and she had given me this silver chain and pendant.

Me: very cute Nani…what does it mean?

My nani: “Help from Allah,and victory is near”

Me: I’ll always keep it with me…

I had never thought that it had come off when I collided with that girl that day…the airport was busy, I was on my phone…she wasn’t even looking where she was going and walked straight into me knocking both of us down

She: I’m sorry…(And she gathered her things that fell on the floor)

I couldn’t see her face past her long brown hair

Me: are you okay?

She didn’t answer and hurried off

I continued on my call thinking nothing about what had just happened…*******

A feeling of nostaligia swept over me…this was unreal……unbelievable…… unforgettable!

I love ur blog n story line, it’s so mature
Seems Maariah is running away from detective Immy but the gang is not going to let her get away lol
The story of the pendant and chain was so touching n I think Aara and Zoheb are meant to be
Team A&Z

OH MY WORD I WANT TO CRY THIS IS SO SO SO SO SO ADORABLE!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Grrrrr how I wish I had my own zoheb… No I lie! AARA AND ZOHEB ARE JUST PERFECTION ❤
Soooooooooooooo incredibly cute! 'applepie', how ADORABLE! 😛
If only I could squeeze Zoo's cheeks!

“Whenever I think that my hope is fading…I realise its not just me and nothing else…as much as it looks otherwise sometimes…she always makes me see it as it is…my greatest fear…my greatest nightmare! #AaraAndZoheb 😛
Ooohoo Nemo and Aara are paired together 😀 !! “Sweetheart my Senorita… it’s you and me!” -Nemo *jumping up and down* *hopefull eyes*!!
Laeeka and Riza as shrek and fiona *dancing face* #CuteMuch 😛
Awwww that chain incident is so cute but bumping part is embarrassing in the moment X_x but haaaai don’t mean you must marry Aara nw Zo0o 😥 . Uuhh Zoheb I will laugh at what foood u want #Ripped bad taste in food 😉 xoxo

Lol haaj, u wont understand. Now that i am far away from home too, i would kill for some lekker aloo fry, dhal n papad.. hmm..bhindi too one of my faves. We tend to take simple food for granted but its the simple food we miss the most when we ate away:( at least zohebs not pretentious :p

Yes me also agree! Nemo needs to know the truth! 😥! Don’t worry nemo lets hope Aara sees ur love for her! Hey shazia I think that is must very oblivious now and I’m saw even a blind man would be able to see that something is happening zoheb and Aara! Love the pendant moment so sweet! But I’m still team nemo! Don’t know how nemo is going to react # can’t watch #

OMg okay this post has convinced me that Zoheb and Aara really so belong together! It was just too sweet for my life! Aahhhh!! But I don’t want her to feel sumthng(butterflies or whatever) if Nemo does something or tell her sumthng cause then I’m gna be irritated with her *sigh* I still love Nemo more :p and he should get sumone he really loves